[PATCH] i2c: Driver to expose PowerNV platform i2c busses

[Neelesh Gupta]

On 11/13/2014 06:10 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 21:56 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> No, there is no timeout, if that fails something went quite wrong, it
>> could almost be a BUG_ON (basically we passed a wrong token or a NULL
>> msg).
>>
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>> +   rc = be64_to_cpu(msg.params[1]);
>>>> +   if (rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) {
>>>> +           rc = -EIO;
>>>> +           goto exit;
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
> Actually, to correct myself, there are a number of error conditions
> including timeouts inside the FW layer, but they are returned here, not
> from opal_async_wait_response(). So indeed, we could do some error code
> conversion at that point.
>
> Neelesh, can you do that on top of your patch that adds the detailed
> error codes ? We can merge it fw side tomorrow if you have a new spin,
> worst case if the FW is old and only returns OPAL_HARDWARE we return
> -EIO and if the FW is newer we'll have more precise error codes in Linux
> too.

Yes, nice to have more precise error codes so I'm adding them in firmware
and rolling out new version of the FW. Please look at it.

Thanks,
Neelesh

>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>